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Folgueira, César. Jaro, Lorenzo.
1. Introduction
In December 2010, the Madrid-Albacete / Valencia HSL was put into service, allowing a
significant improvement in travel time between Madrid, Albacete, Valencia and Alicante, with
the introduction of rail services with gauge change (Alvia services).
Subsequently, in June 2013 the HSL between Albacete and Alicante was completed, thus
allowing the direct connection in HSR between Madrid and Alicante, also building a new station
in Villena.
The following figure shows the Madrid-Levante High Speed Line, currently in service.
The improvement of travel times in rail has been very relevant, as we can be seen in the
following figure:
Figure 1. Madrid-Levante HSL.
In 2015 ADIF put into service two new sections of the HSL Madrid-Asturias (Valladolid-León)
and Madrid-Galicia (Olmedo-Medina del Campo-Zamora), extending the Madrid-Valladolid HSL
opened at the end of 2007.
Figure 2. Rail travel times before and after HSR.
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